The head of emergencies of a hospital in New York, stressed by the coronavirus, committed suicide – Télam

-The director of the emergency department of a hospital in New York committed suicide after spending many days on the front lines of the battle against the coronavirus in one of the cities hardest hit by the pandemic and after confessing to relatives that she could not bear to see her die. so many people, the local press reported today.

“She tried to do her job and that killed her,” said fellow physician Philip Breen, Lorna’s father, who had no history of mental illness but had been infected – and apparently cured – from Covid-19.

Philip said that the last time he spoke to his daughter, she told him that it was unbearable for her to see so many coronavirus-infected patients die, some of them even before they could be removed from the ambulance.

Lorna committed suicide in Charlottesville, Virginia, where she had gone to spend a few days with her family, two days after John Mondello, a 23-year-old emergency paramedic working in New York, took his own life for a similar motif.

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